2nd degree Burns

I havent had any hot riffs to share lately, because i got 2nd degree burns on my magic fingers, right on the tips from touching a muffler. I usually grab hot mufflers every friday, but that time it was just hotter than normal so i got some burns. I just started getting back on the axe and hope to be riffin' soon.

Clarifying Axe Inventory

So I ran into Wes Callihan at loco grinz downtown and we were speaking briefly about my guitar inventory, and while i was impressed with his memory on this front; I also felt that I needed to properly introduce the family. These are my electrics. Not as many as I use to have, but i have since moved from quantity to quality. I will introduce the rest of the family(acoustics) later.

This is my custom MJ Mirage my wife bought me when i was 24. It was built with an ebony neck with pearl inlay roman numeral XII on the 12th fret. I had all the pearl dots removed on the rest of the neck to get that clean smooth look to it. It has a seymour duncan humbucker and 2 seymour single coils. The paint as you can see is color-shifting paint. It goes from blue to red to purple and sometimes aqua green depending on the lighting im under. I typically use it for softer music, because the clean sound this guitar gets is unmatchable. Its sustain and overall tone is majestic.




This is my PRS 20th Anniversary 24 fret limited edition that was in production for 1 year. It has the trail of birds flying up the neck which is different from their traditional layout. This is my most played guitar, because it is the most versatile. I can bust out some heavy metal lick, soft rock, or even worship tunes with this bad boy. Everything that comes out of this guitar sounds great. It is easy to play, and incredibly comfortable to solo on. I got him when i was in colorado about 5 years ago, i was 22 i think. My wife and I went into Spotlight music, and were looking at the expensive price tag, and werent too hot on that. But after talking to the store owner and finding out we lived in the same town as his daughter and knew a few mutual people, she got excited. I told her i bought a an emerald prs at her store 2 years prior and i loved their service even though it was far from home. She then said that the students were gone for the summer and she didnt think she would push anymore out the door. So she pretty much gave me the guitar at cost. It was at that point my wife became the apple of my eye.



This is my PRS CE 22. It was the first "real" guitar i ever had. I guess by that i mean first guitar that out performed all the entry level guitars i have ever had, by leaps and bounds. This emerald guitar, is not only easy to play, but is a powerhouse. Its dragon II pickups are so hot, they will melt your face. I plug this bad boy in when im ready to bring the thunder. I dont use it so much for softer music or even alternative, its pretty much a hard rock, angry guitar. I bought this one in colorado as well im pretty sure when i was 20. I couldnt even believe i bought it.



Last, my newest addition is the Schecter Omen. Unlike all my other guitars this one, is very cheap, price-wise. I only paid 150 for it, i think they retail at 350 or so. Schecter is one of those brands along with Ibanez that price is not as important on some levels. As far as its playability and its structural quality its well worth it. The few areas it doesnt match up to the others is, versatility, overal sound quality, and its ability to stay in tune for months like a prs can. But besides that it plays well, it offers a sound none of my other guitars have. Which is a deep low, bassy, gravely clean sound. And when you hit the distortion it turns really muddy, its a really cool sounding guitar.

That is my electric collection for now. Hopefully someday i will obtain my dream of a PRS private stock.

4 cop cars, 1 fire truck, 1 ambulance

I was disturbed in my sleep by a loud screech followed by a crash. And the picture above is what i saw, minus the people. A guy stubled out of the car. I called it in, but someone already had, which amazed me, because i was up instantly and called within 1 minute or less of the impact. I gotta hand it to whoever beat me to it, way to be up at 5 am and alert enough to call quickly. The guy had to have been on some stubstance, because he crashed into this house in such a way that he had to have been going the wrong way on the street or using the roundabout incorrectly. There is no way, at the speeds he would have had to have been traveling to do the damage he did, that he was using the roundabout correctly, or even going the correct direction. The impact into that house was at such and angle that he couldnt have avoided all the trees and posts from the west side, so he either flew down joseph, up over the roundabout, and smacked the house. Or he flew in from out of town and took a hard left into the house. Either way, drugs or alcohol, in my mind. The funny thing about this is the moscow pd response time. After i called in, and they said officers and meds were already on their way. It must have taken 10-15 before they showed up. And when they did show up, it was nice, there were 4 cop cars. The hilarious thing was, the fire truck showed up like 5 mins after the cops, and the ambulance showed up last like several minutes after the firetruck. If this had been a noise complaint, or jaywalking, or davis rollerblading on the street; the cops would have been there in 2 minutes flat. Seems like anytime something real happens, all the cops are sleeping or eating donuts.